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Stephen Colbert on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's Trial at Gitmo

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)2/28/2013 2:34:20 pm PST

re: #100 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

It is not quite fifty years since Congressman Lewis was beaten down for having the temerity to insist that he was the equal of a white man. Are we really to pretend that all that poisonous racism has disappeared? When nailbombs that could kill hundred get planted in the northeast, while voter suppression affecting minorities outrageously is endorsed at the highest levels of the GOP? Really?

Can it be that the Supreme Court justices are ignorant of the cases that were raised under section 5? If so, how can they be questioning its relevance, whatever the arguments as to constitutionality?

It really makes me worried for the next generation of lawyers and judges. Remember, Scalia and Roberts have young clerks writing and researching for them. I have to say that I think a lot of young Americans of which I am one are ignorant to how recent the Civil Rights era was and how hard African Americans and others had to fight for their Civil Rights. Lewis was lucky to have survived but others like MLK, Medger Evers, and a hostful of others weren’t so lucky.